Re: Simplicity has a future

Ian Collins said:
Richard Heathfield wrote:
Which C99 compiler are you using? If the answer is "gcc", why bother to
claim that you have a C99 compiler? (gcc is /not/ a conforming C99
compiler.)

Never use it. I use Sun Studio, which is approaching C99 conformance.

Okay, fine - just as long as you realise that most people /don't/ have a C99
compiler.

The Solaris headers have also migrated to C99.

Maybe if you can explain the usefulness to mankind of the code, I might
give it a go....

Like much code posted here, its usefulness to mankind is that it
illustrates a point about the language. In this case, the point is that
the claim "I can copy-paste your C code and compile it as C++" is
demonstrably false.

Neither of the compliers I have will compile it, gcc or Studio. Studio
barfs over asm.

gcc compiles it just fine here, using:

-W -Wall -ansi -pedantic -Wformat-nonliteral -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith
-Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-Wmissing-declarations -Winline -Wundef -Wnested-externs -Wcast-qual
-Wshadow -Wconversion -Wwrite-strings -Wno-conversion -ffloat-store -O2

If Studio barfs over asm, it's not a conforming C implementation, C90 /or/
C99. asm is a perfectly normal C identifier in user namespace.

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